Lightning not in a bottle but heard by a chip

[Richard O'Neill]

  Yep, it's quite easy to hear atmospheric sparking from several hundred 
miles with an LF (~300 khz) crystal set.
This page https://thunderstorm.vaisala.com/tux/jsp/explorer/explorer.jsp 
shows location and direction.

Richard


On 5/4/2012 10:33 AM, Mike O'Dell wrote:
> hearing discharges on AM or LW is not hard.
> distinguishing between different types of discharges,
> the approximate energy, and direction, that *is* hard.
>
>     -mo
>
>
> On 5/3/12 8:26 PM, Joseph Bento wrote:
>> On 5/3/2012 12:33 PM, Mike O'Dell wrote:
>>> Take this:
>>>     
>>> http://www.austriamicrosystems.com/Products/RF-Products/Lightning-Sensor/AS3935
>>>
>>> swizzle in a bit of APRS
>>>
>>> and presto! distributed lightning detector network!
>>>
>> An AM radio is so much easier, and everyone has one.  Not networked, 
>> mind you.  Just tune as low as it can go - usually about 530KHz.
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